Saudi Arabia Objects To Proposed .gay gTLD, Among Others
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Qedward writes "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has objected to a variety of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) ranging from .porn and .sexy to .wine and .bar and .bible, according to records of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The organisation said in June it had received 1930 applications for gTLD 'strings,' of which 911 came from North America and 675 from Europe. Saudi Arabia's Communication and Information Technology Commission, the IT and communications regulator, has objected to the .gay string and asked ICANN to refuse the application for the new gTLD. 'Many societies and cultures consider homosexuality to be contrary to their culture, morality or religion,' CITC said. 'The creation of a gTLD string which promotes homosexuality will be offensive to these societies and cultures,' it added."
Hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Interesting the .gay thing, considering how infamous Saudi Party Boys are...
Well... (Score:2, Funny)
How about this new gTLD? (Score:5, Funny)
Ban them all (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So whats the problem? (Score:2, Funny)
The problem probably is that I registered .quran and made it an alias.
Re:Irony (Score:2, Funny)
You do realize that the US gets the most of its oil from Canada don't you? While I am no fan of french fries and gravy, I see no reason to boycott Canadian oil.
Re:Well I object (Score:5, Funny)
to their treatment of Jews and women, so they can kiss my ass.
The Saudis probably wouldn't object to .jew because it would help them block a lot of material...
Re:Hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
What should we expect from men in dresses who are afraid of women? At least Allah has put them someplace where there's plenty of lube!
Re:Ban them all (Score:5, Funny)
As an Anarcho-Cyclist I object to car companies so I respectfully request that we remove the .car and .carinsurance TLDs.
Re:Hmmm... (Score:4, Funny)
That's not nearly as strange as their rule that they aren't allowed to be alone with a male goat (nannies are ok).